Actual Lead Time on Tekton Speakers

Winning friends and influencing people, you really are Italian.

Unless I am missing something here the party you should be going after is the carrier. They are the one contracted to deliver. Tekton tendered the shipment, it is the carrier now you must deal with. Your legalistic approach will never fly. But it figures, a guy who can’t find anyone with a truck, and thinks it costs $400 in gas to go 450km (a mini-measure unit of distance, not even 300 miles, $400 would go more like 2000 miles) is probably exaggerating and misrepresenting everything else as well.

This is why I take a real hard look at stories like these. There is always another side, and whoever is aggrieved is always presenting only the worst side of it. The last one I recall dropped his story like a hot rock the minute he was asked for details.

Sad fact of the matter is we have some people here who love nothing more than to go around wrecking the lives of anyone they can. Believe me, seen it up close and personal. You got a problem, deal with it. Get your transportation, get your speakers. They are a helluva lot closer now than they were in Utah. So you have to find a truck and drive. Big deal. Been there. Done that. Didn’t go whining all over the interwebs.

That is, I will say it again, the difference between a can-do American and your typical run of the mill euroweenie.

Tekton are not getting away with anything. Nobody forced you, not to place the order, not to wait week after week. And of all your wonderful business experience nobody saw you claim to be a psychoanalyst who knows why Tekton is run the way it is run.   

Nobody needs a lecture from a rear view driver pretending to know how another guy runs his business, let alone why. That would be, what is the word for it? Oh yeah, pretty sure the word for that is BS. I have to call BS on that, spacecadet65. 

One thing for sure, if ever I want an authority who knows the inner workings of the mind of someone they never met, I know who to ask: The spacecadet. 

Sounds like you have a problem with the carrier. If you want to call Tekton first look at the time zones and call when someone will be there. If the phone rings long enough it transfers over to Eric's cell. 

But my question is, why? Do you want them? Or not? It seems to me if you want them then simply drive down and get them. No this is not what you bargained for. Yes it is not supposed to be this way. For sure you can stand on principle. demand the shipper do what they obviously will not do. Demand Eric do what he obviously cannot force the carrier to do. You can in other words fish or cut bait. Cry over spilt milk. Throw the baby out with the bath water. Or whatever it is they say in Italy to describe one who cuts off his nose to spite his own face.

Sorry, but I look around at the way things are in the world these days and see a guy stomping his feet impotently and just don't have a lot of sympathy. Empathy for what happened sure. But sympathy for your way of handling it no. 

If I was calling anyone it would be the carrier. But honestly I would not be calling even them. I would be in my car or borrowing a truck and getting the job done myself. Would not be the first time. Good ol' American can-do. Capiche?

What did you learn? You pretty much accused the guy of stealing your money to use interest free, knocked his whole business model, holding yourself up as a paragon of business virtue while really doing nothing more than whining about a situation you put yourself in and willingly participated in. Then act surprised when others see this, quite correctly, as attacking the guy. Well, that is what you did.  

I continue to be amused by people who have one standard for themselves, indeed a whole set of definitions of words held just for their own use, and another quite different set for everyone else.  

Not. Amused, I mean. That was mockery.

It was not my intention to start a hate thread on Tekton.

In that case then you should not have written the post you did.

As far as the product goes, I've received great value for money.

Indeed. They are. Huge value. Greatest value. 

It's just a little frustrating...

I'll say. It would have been so easy for you to have said something like-    

Eric Alexander seems to be an extraordinarily creative genius with a drive to bring high end audio to a level normal people can afford. He has succeeded to such an extent the demand far exceeds supply. He could take the easy way out and raise prices. But instead he does all he can to keep them low. This means we have to wait longer than we would like. But it is so totally worth it I cannot find it within myself to complain. 

That is what you could have done. If you really did not want to turn it into a hate thread. Live and learn. 

Sounds like all you need to do then is start a fourth company, this one building speakers so good the demand is so great you cannot keep up. Heck it is so easy you probably could have done it in the five months you wasted waiting. 

Or you could read my Moab review, in which case you would have known to expect this.

The reality of it is, you have whether you know it or not entered the world of high end audio. Yes you can click on a web page. Yes you can email. You can be forgiven for confusing this with Amazon. In spite of appearances however this is about as far from Amazon as you can get.

High end audio has some pretty big corporate entities. The heart of high end audio however is people. A lot of the very best stuff is made by people so crazy creatively genius they are way out on the fringe of creative genius.

They are not out on the creative fringe of creative genius like Sam Walton, using satellite communications to save billions with just in time inventory. They are not out on the creative fringe of creative genius like Jeff Bezos, another one putting millions of people out of work. They are creative geniuses mostly at designing insanely good sounding gear.

I just ordered a Raven Blackhawk. Didn’t want a Raven Blackhawk. Wanted a Reflection. But thanks to the reality of our messed up world who knows how long a wait that will be? Even a Blackhawk is a month out. Oldhvymec waited something like 5 or 6 months for his Decware ZP3. You don’t see us whining about it.

Because we understand the reality of the world we live in, and in particular the reality of being in a niche market so micro you could ask a hundred people no one will even know what you’re talking about. Amazon, everyone knows.

You want to say this sucks, fine. Technically you are right. We are all entitled to have everything right now. If not sooner. Either that or: Embrace the suck.

Choose wisely.

Moabs are totally worth the wait. You will know within minutes of firing them up. Then over the next days/weeks/months they will only grow on you more and more. If ever you are thinking they are bright, or forward, or that you know what kind of sound stage they throw, put on some different music or change a component and then you will learn it never was the speakers after all. The friend who was over most recently said the midrange was perfect, the best he ever heard. Everything can of course always be made better, and I am working on that. But for $5k? Holy cow! You will see. Er, hear.  

Meantime, enjoy a little Tekton humor. What does Tekton have in common with Patek-Phillipe? You never really own one. You just order it for the next generation.